Summary
In this chapter, you learned about:
- The history of technologies before SignalR.
- The concepts and technologies that underpin SignalR.
- Implementing the chat functionality using SignalR, including building a hub hosted in a website project, and clients using JavaScript and a .NET console app.
- Downloading and uploading streams of data using SignalR.
In the next chapter, you will learn about GraphQL, another standard that enables client control over the data returned from a service.